Maintainer needed for CCK / Panels integration

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yched's picture

CCK holding many (most ?) node data on many sites, the integration of CCK with other big-named 3rd party modules is important to allow rich features across the ecosystem. However, it's not really possible for Karen and I to get intimate enough with each one of them to implement, debug and enrich integration with 3rd party code efficiently.
Panels integration in D5 has never passed the 'sort of works' level, and I'm not personally planning on investing much time on this in D6 either. I'd very much welcome someone stepping up to maintain this part - just like fago is already a maintainer for the CCK integration with his Rules module (workflow_ng for D6).

AFAICT, it should not be a daunting or too much time-consuming task. It probably requires some familiarity with Panels API more than guru-level acquaintance with CCK internals. CCK maintainers will of course provide CCK-specific support and advice. The amount of code currently involved is currently limited.

I just committed some code to have 'field as panel' work again Adding CCK Fields to Panels Pages, and I'm about to commit non-working code for nodereference/userreference relationships (basically the D5 code we had removed when working on the D6 branch while there was no Panels yet).

From there on, what's needed is :
- test, debug what's here
- ensure our code stays in sync with Panels (which is still alpha)
- maybe enhance the UI for 'field as panel' settings form ?
- update 'fieldgroup as pane'
- other ideas ? ;-)

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michelle's picture

I'm hesitant to commit to anything as I'm having trouble keeping up with the commitments I already have. But I'm the one that wrote the fieldgroup integration to begin with and I have a vested interest in making sure that works for APK. Individual fields I don't care as much about but it's a similar idea. So I'm going to keep an eye on this and maybe could pick it up if no one else steps up. But if there's someone out there who is gun ho to take this on, don't let me stop you. :)

Michelle


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I would be willing to take

gordon's picture

I would be willing to take this on, maybe Michelle and I can take this on as a join effort as the 2 main contributers in this area. I want to see this in there and I do a lot of work with Panels for my experiments and seeing how far I can push it.

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Gordon Heydon

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Gordon Heydon

I'd love to take this on, but...

sun's picture

I'd love to take this on, but I'm pretty buried with my work on Wysiwyg API currently. My time will only allow me to write, review & test sporadic patches. So if there is something, just point me to it.

Daniel F. Kudwien
unleashed mind

Daniel F. Kudwien
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Here we are yched, nearing

sdboyer's picture

Here we are yched, nearing the new year...that means my promise-of-last-resort to take this on may soon come true :)

Whoops

michelle's picture

I forgot about this post... I said I'd do it in the issue queue and have updated fieldgroup to work with panels in D6. No response from the CCK maintainers, though I imagine they're busy with fields in core. :(

Michelle


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